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US4541679A
US4541679A US06/513,216 US51321683A US4541679A US 4541679 A US4541679 A US 4541679A US 51321683 A US51321683 A US 51321683A US 4541679 A US4541679 A US 4541679A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/24—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands
    • H01R4/2404—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles penetrating the insulation
    • H01R4/2412—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles penetrating the insulation actuated by insulated cams or wedges
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/24—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands
    • H01R4/2416—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having insulation-cutting edges, e.g. of tuning fork type
    • H01R4/242—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having insulation-cutting edges, e.g. of tuning fork type the contact members being plates having a single slot
    • H01R4/2425—Flat plates, e.g. multi-layered flat plates
    • H01R4/2429—Flat plates, e.g. multi-layered flat plates mounted in an insulating base
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/24—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands
    • H01R4/2416—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having insulation-cutting edges, e.g. of tuning fork type
    • H01R4/242—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having insulation-cutting edges, e.g. of tuning fork type the contact members being plates having a single slot
    • H01R4/2437—Curved plates

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  • Our present invention relates to an electrical connector strip, and more particularly, to a connector strip of the type in which a conductor is electrically connected to a contact member and, by movement of a movable part of the strip, the conductor is not only locked into electrical connection with the contact member, but also is mechanically secured against withdrawal.
  • Solder-lug connections provide still better electrical junctions but often are mechanically insecure.
  • efforts have been made to provide quick-operating connectors in which a stripped or unstripped end of the conductor is mechanically locked in place and during the locking operation is brought into forceable engagement with a cutting edge of the contact member so that the secured electrical connection is ensured by cutting into the conductor with the contact member.
  • this invention is concerned primarily with devices in which the movement of the conductor is effected by a swivel device which carries the conductor end into engagement with the contact element.
  • the swivel device forms part of a contact element made from a sheet metal strip and having the shape of a "U" lying on a side with an upper leg disposed above the lower leg.
  • the upper leg carries the connecting wire and by pressing down the free leg, a cutting and clamping terminal projecting upwardly from the lower leg locks against the conductor and holds the free end of the upper leg in a locked position as well as to grip the conductor.
  • German patent document DE-OS No. 23 55 873 represents an earlier arrangement in which the wires to be connected are inserted into holes in a disk and are pressed into circularly disposed contact elements.
  • Still another arrangement provides an axially displaceable connector sleeve whose movement causes radially resilient terminals to press into corresponding chambers of a connector body, the conductors previously having been inserted into these chambers to make electrical contact.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide an inexpensive reversible operable connector or terminal strip which enables securing mechanical and electrical engagement to be attained but yet permits the conductor to be disconnected readily and indeed, allows the mechanical actuating device to disconnect the conductor or the contact member as easily as the original connection was made.
  • the insertion hole, the guide passage and the slot are coplanar, i.e. lie in a common plane perpendicular to the swivel axis.
  • the contact member forms a bow around the pivot portion of the swivel member so that the latter is retained in or on a housing of the connector or terminal strip with the aid of the contact member or element.
  • the contact member or element comprises a band or strip formed with the window and surrounding a circular pivot portion of the swivel member which can have a notch engageable by a detent of the band or strip to index the swivel member in a position in which its passage and its insertion hole are aligned with the large part of the window.
  • the rotation of the swivel member cams the detent out of the notch or recess.
  • the pivot portion thus constitutes a holding member which is retained by the contact member, strip or band on the housing.
  • the swivel member can be formed with a further portion constituting an actuating lever which can have a slot engageable by a screwdriver or the like which can function as an extension of the lever arm.
  • the axes of the guide passage, the large part of the window and the insertion hole when they are in alignment in the nonactuated state of the swivel member form an angle of less than 90° and greater than 30° with a base plate of the housing upon which the swivel member is mounted, the through hole and guide passage having a common axis lying parallel to the base plate in the actuated state of the device.
  • the base plate or housing is provided with a retainer or hold-down device into which the conductor is carried as it is forced into the cutting slot of the contact member in the rotary entrainment of the conductor by the swivel member.
  • the detent can also be provided to engage in a further notch or recess of the pivot portion so that the swivel member is capable of being arrested in two different locking position and, in addition, the swivel member can comprise a disk-shaped segment which is guided in a complementary slot in the housing.
  • the pivot member is formed with a slot which opens laterally to permit the contact strip or band to be inserted and it has been found to be advantageous to provide a second laterally open slot radially spaced from the first to accommodate a second contact band or strip similarly provided with a keyhole window to improve the electrical connection and to permit two different contacts to be simultaneously connected to a common conductor.
  • the contact member can be so provided that a free end of the tape or band provides a pin which in turn constitutes a plug which can be received in a jack, both ends of the band can have the same type of connection or different types of connections and at least one end can be soldered in a printed circuit board.
  • the housing itself may be a single member provided with a number of swivel members and the respective contact members, or the housing may be assembled from a number of similar parts, each carrying a single swivel member.
  • the connecting strip of the invention has numerous advantages over prior art devices in that the swivel part without strenuous effort can be mounted on the housing readily, can receive a conductor which is inserted simply, and can be rotated with considerable ease to mechanically lock the conductor in the contact element and simultaneously effect electrical connection. Since the keyhole configuration of the window enables a narrow slot which is closed at its end to be used to cut into the conductor, comparatively narrow swivels and contact members can be provided to permit close spacing between the conductors and contact members.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a plug-type connecting strip showing a right-hand swivel member in its locked position with the conductor both mechanically and electrically engaged, its next swivel partly broken away and receiving a conductor before the swivel has been rotated into its locked position, and two other swivel members in their unactuated position, part of the collar having also been broken away;
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of this connector, also partly broken away;
  • FIG. 3 is a transverse section taken along the line III--III of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 is another view similar to FIG. 3 but of a connecting strip more closely resembling that of FIG. 4, utilizing two contact members per swivel.
  • connection strip unit is generally indicated by the reference numeral 1.
  • This unit substantially consists of a housing 2 in which at least one contact element 3 and one swivel device consisting of a swivel part 4 are arranged.
  • the swivel part 4 comprises a hold member or pivot portion 5 with the aid of which it is mounted inside the housing 2.
  • a mounting means there is used advantageously the contact element 3 itself.
  • the latter is provided with a tape-shaped section 6 which partly surrounds the hold member 5, and with the tape ends thereof being secured in or to the base plate 7 of the housing 2.
  • the hold member 5 is designed as a pivot whose longitudinal axis represents the axis of rotation of the swivel device. Transversely in relation to the axis of rotation, the pivot is provided with at least one insertion hole 9 for guiding a wire 8 to be connected, with this insertion hole 9 lying in one plane with the cutting and clamping slot 10 contained in the circular curved portion of the contact element 3.
  • the cutting and clamping slot 10 is not only closed at its lower end, but also at its upper end, i.e. the large part 11 of the window.
  • a throughhole 11 of this window (FIG. 2) which is in alignment with the insertion hole 9 of the pivot when the swivel part 4 is in its non-actuated state.
  • a wire guide 13 which is in alignment with the throughhole 11 in the contact element and with the insertion hole 9 in the hold member 5.
  • This wire guide as can be seen from the examples of embodiment of the connection strip unit 1 as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, is designed as a conical through bore.
  • the function of the wire guide 13, however, can also be performed by a groove provided for on the bottom side of the actuating lever 12.
  • the axes of the wire guide 13, of the throughhole 11 and of the insertion hole 9 which are in alignment with one another and, in the non-actuated state of the swivel part 4, form an angle of less than 90° and greater than 30° together with the base plate 7 of the housing 2.
  • the wire 8 is inserted slantingly into the swivel part 4, to such an extend that the end thereof meets against the bottom of the insertion hole 9, designed as a blind hole, in the pivot.
  • the wire 8 Upon pressing down the actuating lever 12, the wire 8 is pressed into the cutting and clamping slot 10 and, outside the swivel part 4, for effecting a strain-relieved holding, simultaneously also between the spring tongues of mushroom-shaped holding-down devices 14 of the housing 2.
  • the pressing down of the actuating lever 12 can be easily carried out manually, but this can also be done with the aid of a screwdriver whose pointed end is then inserted into a recess 15 arranged above the opening of the wire guide 13.
  • the swivel part 4 has two angularly offset operative positions.
  • a first lock-in position retains it in the non-actuated, open position while the second lock-in position prevents the actuated swivel part or the wire 8 as clamped therein, from becoming loose on its own.
  • the lock-in positions are formed by a locking arm or detent 16 embossed in the tape-shaped section 6 of the contact element 3, and by two fitting locking notches 17 provided for in the pivot portion of the swivel part 4. They can also be realized, however, with the aid of corresponding arrangements acting, for example, between the swivel part 4 and the housing 2.
  • the swivel part 4 is provided with a disk-shaped segment 18 which is guided in a complementary slot in the housing 2.
  • This additional guide consists of a pivot 19 projecting on one side of the swivel part 4, which respectively engages into the cavity 20 as correspondingly arranged on the other side, of a neighboring swivel part 4 (FIG. 1).
  • the side walls of the housing 2 are identically designed on the insides.
  • the band shaped section 6 of the contact element 3 is smaller than the swivel part 4 and completely recessed in the slit 21 provided in the hold part 5 and opening at one side of the swivel member 4.
  • a further slit 22 can be provided to receive a second contact element 23, thereby providing the advantage of two independent wire contacts or connections.
  • the extended ends of the band shaped contact element portions 6 secured in the base plate 7 can have shapes depending upon the use to which the contact strip is to be put.
  • the slender end of the contact doubled back on itself, forms a plug contact or pin 24 which can be received in a jack complementary to the plug side of the contract strip.
  • These terminals can also be posts to which wires can be attached by twirling them around the post. They can also form lugs to which solder connections can be made, either by solder lugs or direct soldering of wire thereto.
  • solder connections can be made, either by solder lugs or direct soldering of wire thereto.
  • combinations of these approaches can also be used and, for instance, one end of the strip 6 forming the contact may form a plug connector pin while the other end forms a solder lug or another plug connector pin.
  • both ends of the contact strips have similar connections, i.e. are inserted through holes of a printed circuit board and are soldered to the circuitry.
  • the terminals on both ends of the strip can be the same or different.
  • the terminals are plug pins 24, they all may be surrounded by a common collar 25 (FIG. 1) which can receive the jack into which these pins fit.
  • the housing will have a substantially box-shaped form.
  • the ends of the contact elements 3, 23 are mounted therein, for example, either by employing the ultrasonic welding process, or nonpositively, for example, with the aid of a snap-action joint, or detachably by way of twisting. As is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the prolonged mounting ends of the contact elements 3,23 form connecting lugs for being soldered into printed circuit boards 26.
  • the housing 2 of the connection strip unit 1 and the swivel parts 4 thereof each consist of bodies of insulating material injection-moulded in one piece. While in the examples of embodiment described hereinbefore with reference to the drawings, several lined-up swivel parts 4 are arranged inside one housing 2, the housing in a not shown example consists of individual sections capable of being lined up and joined together with the aid of e.g. a dovetail guide or with the aid of snap fasteners, which each contain one swivel part 4 with at least one contact element 3.
  • connection strip unit 1 Independently of whether the housing 2 of the connection strip unit 1 is made of one piece or consists of individual sections joined together, it is provided on the bottom side 27 of its baseplate 7 appropriately with a circumferential strip or with several spacers 28, permitting the housing to be mounted on printed circuit boards 26.

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